Traditional Boats - East and West - at Douglas Brooks Boatbuilding

Douglas Brooks is a boatbuilder, writer and researcher, specializing in wooden boats built to traditional Western and Japanese designs. My research work involves documenting the design secrets and techniques of traditional Japanese boatbuilding, working directly with Japan's last wooden boatbuilders. I also research the boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. http://www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2016.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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I will be giving a lecture in Brattleboro, VT this Saturday, March 20th at 2pm at the Brooks Memorial Library on my research work in Japan. ...

Friday, February 12, 2010

Home Again

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I promised additional blog postings even though the boat was built, but jet lag and getting back into the swing of things after two and a ha...

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Sayonara

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After two months of work it was finally time to leave Iejima. The sabani is destined to be shipped to the Museum of Maritime Science in Tok...

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

History Revisited

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I don't think I've ever put two posts up in one day, so if you haven't looked at the blog in awhile be sure to keep reading belo...

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Post Construction

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Surprising how many people have emailed me asking what I am doing with my time on the island now that the boat is done. Well, given how man...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Finished!

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Time seems to have taken on a strange quality the last week or so. I had two visitors from Tokyo over the last four days and it seems as th...

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Douglas Brooks: I am a boatbuilder, writer and researcher with a special interest in traditional Japanese boatbuilding. Since 1996 I have apprenticed with nine boatbuilders throughout Japan, building and documenting the designs and construction of over a dozen distinct types of Japanese boats. My research involves working directly with craftsmen in order to document their secrets and techniques. In my view this work is crucial, as Japan's last traditional boatbuilders leave little or no written record of their work and most have no apprentices. This work is chronicled in my latest book, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding, published in 2015 by Floating World Editions. Signed and inscribed copies are available from my website. Here in the US I build wooden boats for private clients and as education projects for museums and municipalities. I also teach boatbuilding and I am researching the boats and boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. I write for WoodenBoat magazine, among other publications. Please visit my website: www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT NOTICE © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2020.

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